It’s been a long time since Alex Winter was a vampire. Here, lest we get sued for libel, I should stress that Winter was never actually a vampire and that I was exaggerating for comic effect; and because it is October, the spooooookiest month; and because of Winter’s involvement in the series AMC Visionaries: Eli…
If a male American actor has plenty of gravitas, odds are he’ll end up playing the President someday, or if not the President, someone like him—your Mayors, your Captains, your Senators, your Supreme Court Justices. These people don’t always have gravitas in life. Some of them really don’t. But the fictional versions…
Here’s a missed opportunity: I didn’t start my brief conversation with Nick Kroll by saying, “ohhhhh, hello.” Nor did I drop into the voice of Parks And Recreation’s The Douche. I did not quote The League or Kroll Show or I Love The ’30s, you get the idea. In some ways, it’s a relief, because that’s tacky. In others,…
There are concepts that intrigue us here at The Takeout. Is there such a thing as too much pepperoni on a pizza? Do we eat soup or do we drink soup? Is Milwaukee-style pizza a thing? What’s bologna? But nothing, nothing has captured our imagination, nay, consumed our minds so much as the question of what, exactly,…
When actor, writer, and comedian Lil Rel Howery said, as Get Out’s Rod Williams, the immortal words, “Leave, motherfucker!,” one believed him. That’s not simply because the shining star of the T.S.A. was unassailably right—it was, in fact, some Eyes Wide Shut situation—but because Howery’s voice rings with authority.…
Leslie Jordan is the type of person who, were he seated next to you on an airplane, you’d actually want him to talk to you, and you’d maybe dread that the flight would end. Perched on his knees and leaning over the back of a sofa like you’ve just met at a slumber party he’s throwing, Jordan holds court with reporters…
This week, a fierce debate struck up online inspired by a 2015 article in Garden & Gun magazine. Called “A Forgotten Southern Sandwich,” the piece discusses the history of the peanut-butter-and-mayonnaise sandwich, apparently created during the Depression in nearly-bare larders as hungry people searched for a valuable…
To call Nicholas Sparks a man of few words would be laughable. The prolific author of The Notebook, Message In A Bottle, A Walk To Remember, The Longest Ride, and other tearjerkers has a seemingly endless font of words at his disposal. Hell, he’s got a book out next month, and we didn’t even know about that when we…
There are opportunities in this life that, when they present themselves, you simply cannot fail to act. These golden moments seem to sparkle, to shine, and some primal part of you knows that its light will fade soon, that the window will close, so you must simply act, and act now, leap into the fray and grab the ring…
When did sandwich-bread crusts become so difficult for kids to handle? I can understand a child’s aversion to chewing through a toothsome, crusty baguette, but sliced-bread crusts don’t seem so intimidating. Wonder Bread practically dissolves on your tongue, as far as I remember from my childhood lunches.…
Welcome to The Takeout’s Debate Series. Today, we focus on the most vexing question to confound mankind since whether a hot dog is a sandwich. And that question is... (whoops, the headline already gave it away) what’s the best way to slice a sandwich?
Ten years ago, Subway began offering its best-known promotion: A footlong sub sandwich for $5. You know that jingle. (Our apologies for inserting that between your ears.)
Coronation Chicken was created in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s crowning in 1953 and was served at her coronation luncheon. The original recipe was credited to Rosemary Hume of Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, and combined Indian spice-inspiration with the few readily available ingredients in post-war London. Like many…
What would you do if someone asked you if a hot dog was a sandwich?
A thing you learn when you repeatedly ask famous people whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich is that some of them aren’t particularly interested in that question.
Like many of the best actors, Holland Taylor—and any honest accounting of the best living actors would have to include Holland Taylor—might not have a name one immediately recognizes. But see a picture of her, and the lights start flashing and bells start ringing, as the pinball machine of actor recognition starts to…
In Celebrity Recipes, we tackle a favorite recipe from a beloved star, past or present.
Dog Tag Bakery in Washington, D.C. had a busy day yesterday. They were just making sammiches, you know what I mean? And then two swell guys, just out for a snack and a catch-up, strolled in, and for some reason everyone got really excited.
Sure, Subway has hit few bumps. Yes, it could hardly have selected a worse choice (unknowingly, but still) for a spokesperson. It announced last month that it’s closing hundred of stores in the U.S. So who could blame the brand for wanting to drum up some interest with a Twitter poll or two?
It’s not too often that I am actually surprised by things I come across in that bizarre social catch basin known as “Twitter moments,” but this was definitely one of them. And granted, this one is still up for debate. Like many of you, I always believed that the club sandwich was created at some fancy country club…
